EU citizens have to pay many times for the fish they buy. Between 2007 and 2013 EU funds alone will have subsidized the fishing industry by an estimated 4.3 billion.

The result is not helping anybody: not the citizens paying taxes, not the environment, which is heavily impacted by overfishing and -ironically - also not fishermen. The reason why is explained very clearly in a leaflet to be downloaded by Ocean 2012